Investigation

With so many tall-tales surrounding the origins of coffee and its benefits, we'd thought we'd set the record straight. It's time to wake up and smell the (coffee) truth! Here ...

Last Tuesday evening, I had the pleasure of attending Alchemy's Women in Coffee Event at Lantana London Bridge to meet 3 incredibly inspiring women in the speciality coffee industry, paving ...

Whether you’ve been matched with a date by an app or set up in the old-fashioned friend-of-a-friend manner, it’s important to find out if you and your potential partner are ...

The dimly lit room at the back of Mosob restaurant in London’s Westbourne Grove is decorated with fur rugs, woven baskets and pictures of injera, the teff flour pancake common in ...

A simple bit of maths on the back of the envelope will tell you it makes little financial sense to buy green beans and the necessary equipment to roast your ...

Would you drink wine made not from grapes but a bunch of flavour compounds created in a laboratory? How about if it promised to be identical to a classic vintage ...

Since the launch of Caffeine, we’ve fielded emails and phone calls from people asking for advice about opening a coffee business. Some of those queries have been specifically about operating ...

For what is essentially a lighthearted, image-sharing app, is Instagram far more powerful in shaping our behaviour and the way we view the world than it would at first appear? ...

Many café owners are excited by the possibility of being in control of the coffee-making process from bean to cup, taking full ownership of what is served to customers while ...

Why do we drink coffee? Is it to wake up? Is to revel in the flavour? Is it for a jolt of caffeine? Is it for the ritual? Coffee may ...

When we first started Coming Soon Coffee in September 2011, we had the idea of keeping things simple, both in terms of machinery and beans. For espresso-based drinks, we serve ...

Stroll through a health food store or your local supermarket, and you’ll see many products displaying an organic label. But what does ‘organic’ actually stand for? Organic agriculture promotes a ...